Nathaniel Benchley

Uses a comic strip format to present the seven voyages of Sinbad, in which he encounters a colossal giant, a sea monster, and other dangers.

A young Native American boy sets out to hunt on Manhattan Island and discovers some strange people with white faces and very different ideas about land.

When Mama Cluck loses Arthur, her baby chick, the owl detective finds him boxed for shipment to the children's zoo.

Norse settlers in the New World encounter hostile natives and finally decide to return to their home land.

The experiences of a sixteen-year-old Danish boy during the German occupation of his country in World War II.

Captured and trained to be a marineland sensation, Kilroy, a killer whale, escapes to life on the open sea with his friend Morris the sea gull.

Robert C. Benchley's sketches and articles, published in periodicals like "Life," "Vanity Fair," and "The New Yorker," earned him a reputation as one of the sharpest humorists of his time. His influence on contemporaries such as E.B. White, James Thurber, and S.J. Perelman, or followers like Woody Allen, Steve Martin, and Richard Pryor, has left an indelible mark on the American comic tradition. "The Benchley Roundup," a compendium of the most endearing and enduring work from one of America's funniest and most penetrating wits, includes some ninety-odd pieces selected by Benchley's son Nathaniel, "which seem to stand up best over the years." "It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous."--Robert Benchley.

A fieldmouse is visited by his uncle who teaches him to work and to take the risk of dancing in the moonlight.

This is the book upon which the movie The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming is based.

A young Indian boy receives a larger canoe along with some unforseen complications.

Although recognizing the end of the Indians' freedom is near, a young Cheyenne still chooses to fight with Crazy Horse at the Little Big Horn to prove himself to the girl he loves.

A boy's adventures begin when his magic sled grants his wish for snow.

The ambience of eleventh-century Scandinavian life is portrayed through the eyes of an adventurous youth who travels to Vinland with Leif Eriksson.

A young whale's desire to explore the deep, black water gets him into trouble with a giant squid but helps him save his Uncle Moby from whalers.

A dolphin takes Demo back through time to ask the oracle at Delphi how he can help his father become a successful fisherman.